Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. (Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum) 1578

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Map Description

Old map of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

day Qatar (Abucei, Leaniti, Themi, Asateni, and Aegei). Names added to this edition of the map include Mesmites Sinus, Idicar, and a second Idicar, located in present-day Kuwait. This name is similar to the island of "Ichara" found near Magorum Sinus. Contemporary research has confirmed that Kharj is the island known to the ancients as "Icara." One of the major peninsulas shown on the map is named "Chersonesi Extrema," near Catara. Modern scholarship has identified Chersonesos as Ra's Rakan in present-day Qatar. Ichtyophagorium Sinus is the gulf inhabited by the people identified in ancient histories as the "Fish Eaters." Claudius Ptolemaeus, known in English as Ptolemy, was an ancient mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and astrologer who was born sometime after 83 A.D., most likely in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou in Roman Egypt. He lived in Egypt and died in Alexandria around the year 168.
Created by 2nd Century Ptolemy in 1578.

Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
Original resource extent: 1 map : copperplate engraving, color ; 31 x 46 centimeters.
Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
Content in Latin.
Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. (Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum) 1578

Map Subjects

83 To 168

Arabian Gulf

Arabian Peninsula

Bahrain

Geography Ancient

Iraq

Kuwait

Oman

Persian Gulf

Qatar

Red Sea

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

2nd Century Ptolemy

1578

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